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A car traveling southbound on Highway 6, about 20 kilometres north of Regina, crossed the centre line and nearly collided with a southbound-traveling SUV towing a camper around 11:15 a.m. Friday. The SUV veered out of the way and rolled, along with the camper, into the adjacent ditch.

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A man and a woman were transported to the Broadview Hospital with undetermined injuries after the motorcycle they were riding collided with a car on the Trans-Canada Highway at the intersection with Highway 9, near Whitewood, around 2:15 p.m. Friday. Initial investigation from Broadview RCMP revealed the motorcycle was traveling eastbound when the car, turning from Highway 9, drove into its path.

It’s a big change from the days in the 1980s when there were no direct flights between the capitals of Saskatchewan and Alberta. WestJet alone has two sets of flights between the two cities, and confirmed Monday it’s adding a third.

It was an eventful Wednesday on one Regina block, as police responded to a vehicle that crashed into a building and a rollover. Shortly after 2 p.m., police received a call of a vehicle that drove into the front windows of a public health clinic on Park Street.

The File Hills RCMP detachment is working to determine the cause of a weekend rollover on Carry the Kettle First Nation that left two people dead. According to information from the RCMP, emergency crews were called to the crash which occurred at about 1:20 p.m. Sunday. Police said a truck was travelling southbound on Spencer Road when it hit the ditch and rolled.

A CN train derailed in Ebenezer at approximately 1:50 p.m. Friday, according to the Yorkton Rural RCMP. No one was injured when approximately 12 cars derailed in the community 18 kilometres north of Yorkton. In a press release, the RCMP said there were no environmental hazards or risks to public safety as a result of the incident.

An assessment has been ordered that is expected to provide answers on the mental health of a 20-year-old man charged in a fatal pedestrian collision — including whether he should be found not criminally responsible. Austin Donavon Travis Terry is facing a hit and run charge in connection with a June 24 collision that left a 65-year-old man dead.

If you are buying groceries this weekend for your trip to the Craven Country Jamboree, the Regina Food Bank is asking you to pick up a couple extra items. For a seventh year, the food bank has partnered with Safeway stores across Regina for its Stuff the Bus campaign running Friday and Saturday.

An assessment is expected to be ordered later this week that will look into whether Austin Donavon Travis Terry should be found not criminally responsible due to mental-health issues for an alleged hit and run that left a 65-year-old pedestrian dead last month.

A single-motor vehicle accident on the Ring Road on Friday evening, north of Arcola Avenue, sent a motorcyclist to Regina General Hospital. The Regina Police Service was unable to confirm the extent of the rider’s injuries, but pieces of the motorcycle were strewn across the grass, east of the Ring Road.

A decision to tear down the bridge on Eastgate Drive west of Coleman Crescent and cut the service road in half could force Yinghua Liu out of business. “If the road closes, I will definitely close because I’m losing money ... I can’t afford it,” Liu, owner of the east Robin’s Donuts, said Tuesday.

A cluster of flowers and a photograph tied to a power pole mark the spot where a man was killed in a hit and run on Wednesday. At approximately 11:15 a.m., a 65-year-old man was hit by a westbound vehicle while trying to cross the south side of Saskatchewan Drive at the intersection of Halifax Street.

Outlined in neat chalk circles, a pair of smashed glasses, two white sneakers and a faded Roughriders baseball cap marked the spot on Saskatchewan Drive where a man was killed in a hit and run late Wednesday morning.

A driver who sped from a traffic stop ended up zooming off of the Ring Road. Police attempted to pull over a 27-year-old female driver just before 11 a.m. Sunday morning near Broad Street and 8th Avenue North when she sped away.

More grain storage capacity on the West Coast, better rail regulation and more accurate crop production projections are needed to avoid a repeat of the 2013-14 grain backlog and the excessive grainhandling “basis’’ charges that went along with it, according to grain transportation expert Richard Gray.